3. Megan Ellison's double joy

Megan Ellison, the 28-year-old producer and founder of Annapurna Pictures, became the first woman to ever receive two Best Picture nominations in the same year, with her films American Hustle and Her both slugging it out for the top prize.

It’s something even Harvey Oscar-lovin’ Weinstein hasn’t been able to do, and we have to look to Scott Rudin (The Social Network and True Grit in 2011) and Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather II and The Conversation in 1974) to see people dominating that category thus.

5. And John Williams' 44th!

But when it comes to nominations, you can add up Woody’s and Meryl’s and still fall well short of the nomination tally for composer John Williams.

Williams, who has won five times -- Fiddler On The Roof, Jaws, Star Wars, ET The Extra Terrestrial and Schindler’s List -- is up for The Book Thief this year, the Best Original Score nomination marking his 44th nomination in the category and his 49th overall.

6. Hobbit makes history

The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug is up for three Academy Awards -- Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing -- and with that Peter Jackson’s Tolkien-mining franchise, including the first Hobbit film and The Lord Of The Rings movies, stands tall with a whopping 36 nominations, more than any other movie series in history.

8. June Squibb to make history?

Also in Nebraska we see veteran actress June Squibb, who, at 84, is the third-oldest woman to be nominated for the Best Supporting Actress award, and, should she win, will become the oldest woman to receive an Oscar for acting.